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Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.
Ibsen's early poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt has strong surreal elements. After Peer Gynt Ibsen abandoned verse and wrote in realistic prose. Several of his later dramas were considered scandalous to many of his era, when European theatre was expected to model strict morals of family life and propriety. Ibsen's later work examined the realities that lay behind the facades, revealing much that was disquieting to a number of his contemporaries. He had a critical eye and conducted a free inquiry into the conditions of life and issues of morality. In many critics' estimates The Wild Duck and Rosmersholm are "vying with each other as rivals for the top place among Ibsen's works"; Ibsen himself regarded Emperor and Galilean as his masterpiece.
Ibsen is often ranked as one of the most distinguished playwrights in the European tradition. He is widely regarded as the foremost playwright of the nineteenth century. He influenced other playwrights and novelists such as George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, James Joyce, Eugene O'Neill, and Miroslav Krleža. Ibsen was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1902, 1903, and 1904.
Ibsen wrote his plays in Danish (the common written language of Denmark and Norway during his lifetime) and they were published by the Danish publisher Gyldendal. Although most of his plays are set in Norway—often in places reminiscent of Skien, the port town where he grew up—Ibsen lived for 27 years in Italy and Germany, and rarely visited Norway during his most productive years. Born into a patrician merchant family, the intertwined Ibsen and Paus family, Ibsen shaped his dramas according to his family background and often modeled characters after family members. He was the father of Prime Minister Sigurd Ibsen. Ibsen's dramas had a strong influence upon contemporary culture.
Filmography
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Movies 141
Writer 131
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Ett dockhem - från Dramaten (2023)
Enemy of the People (2021)
The Master Builder (2020)
National Theatre Live: Hedda Gabler (2017)
Hedda Gabler (2016)
Hedda (2016)
Solness (2015)
The Daughter (2015)
Beata (2015)
While We're Young (2015)
Ghosts (2014)
Apparition (2014)
Heart of Lightness (2014)
A Master Builder (2013)
Et dukkehjem (2013)
Fragmentos de Brand (2012)
A Doll's House (2012)
The Frost (2009)
Mabou Mines Dollhouse (2009)
Carl Størmer and his Detective Camera (2009)
Aakasha Gopuram (2008)
Peer Gynt from the Streets (2008)
Peer Gynt (2006)
Hedda Gabler (2006)
An Enemy of the People (2005)
Hedda Gabler (2004)
Hedda Gabler (2004)
Rosmersholm (2001)
Die Wildente (1994)
Hedda Gabler (1993)
Hedda Gabler (1993)
Sara (1993)
A Doll's House (1992)
An Enemy of the People (1990)
An Enemy of the People (1990)
Vildanden (1989)
Doctor Stockmann (1989)
The Master Builder (1988)
Ghosts (1987)
Theatre Night (1985)
Rosmersholm (1984)
Ibsen's Motif (1984)
La donna del mare (1984)
The Wild Duck (1984)
Gespenster (1983)
Little Eyolf (1982)
Byggmester Solness (1981)
Peer Gynt (1981)
Un enemigo del pueblo (1981)
Hedda Gabler (1981)
Die Wildente (1981)
Hedda Gabler (1980)
L'ultimo spettacolo di Nora Helmer in Casa di bambola di Henrik Ibsen (1980)
An Enemy of the People (1980)
Fruen fra havet (1979)
Peer Gynt (1979)
Stützen der Gesellschaft (1978)
Hedda Gabler (1978)
Gengangere (1978)
An Enemy of the People (1978)
John Gabriel Borkman (1978)
Hedda Gabler (1978)
Ghosts (1977)
Ein Volksfeind (1977)
Baumeister Solness (1976)
The Wild Duck (1976)
Lady Inger of Ostrat (1975)
Die Wildente (1975)
Hedda (1975)
Peer Gynt (1974)
Et dukkehjem (1974)
Rosmersholm (1974)
The Lady From the Sea (1974)
Nora Helmer (1974)
A Doll's House (1973)
A Doll's House (1973)
A Doll's House (1973)
Divá kačka (1972)
Hedda Gabler (1972)
Opory společnosti (1972)
The Enemy of the People (1972)
Peer Gynt (1971)
The Wild Duck (1971)
Ett Dockhem (1970)
Alta comedia (1970)
Hedda Gablerová (1969)
Strašidla (1968)
Hedda Gabler (1967)
John Gabriel Borkman (1967)
An Enemy of the People (1966)
Baumeister Solness (1966)
Gespenster (1966)
Nora oder Ein Puppenheim (1965)
Ein Volksfeind (1965)
Ein Volksfeind (1964)
John Gabriel Borkman (1964)
Hedda Gabler (1963)
The Wild Duck (1963)
Hedda Gabler (1962)
Die Wildente (1961)
Nora (1961)
Rosmersholm (1961)
The Master Builder (1960)
A Doll's House (1959)
Brand (1959)
Doll house (1958)
The Master Builder (1958)
Nora (1956)
Nora (1955)
A Doll's House (1954)
La dama del mar (1954)
Nora (1944)
Casa de muñecas (1943)
Peer Gynt (1941)
Ein Volksfeind (1937)
Pillars of Society (1935)
Peer Gynt (1934)
The Sea Calls (1933)
The House of Lies (1926)
Hedda Gabler (1925)
Nora (1923)
A Doll's House (1922)
Hedda Gabler (1920)
Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend (1919)
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod (1919)
A Doll's House (1918)
Gli spettri (1918)
A Doll's House (1917)
Hedda Gabler (1917)
Her Sacrifice (1917)
A Man There Was (1917)
Pillars of Society (1916)
Peer Gynt (1915)
Ghosts (1915)
Brand (1915)
Ghosts (1915)
The Lady from the Sea (1911)
Sins of the Father (1911)
A Doll's House (1911)
Pillars of Society (1911)
The Lady from the Sea
Ghosts
Ibsens Badekar
Hedda
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GenderMale
Birthday1828-03-20
Deathday1906-05-23 (78 years old)
Birth NameHenrik Johan Ibsen
Birth PlaceSkien, Norway
Religionatheism
Height
RelationshipsSuzannah Ibsen (1858-06-18 - 1906-05-23)
ChildrenHans Jacob Henriksen, Sigurd Ibsen
FatherKnud Ibsen
MotherMarichen Altenburg
SiblingsHedvig Ibsen, Ole Paus Ibsen
CitizenshipsNorway
ResidencesGrimstad · Skien, Norway
Also Known AsHenrik Johan Ibsen, Henrik Ibsén, Henryk Ibsen, Enric Ibsen, Enrique Ibsen, Ibsen, The Father of Modern Drama
Awards3rd class, Order of the Medjidie, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav, Grand Cross of the Order of Vasa, Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog, Order of the Polar Star - Commander's Grand Cross, Knight Grand Officer of the Order of the Saxe-Ernestine
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